What's your hottest literary take?
What's your hottest literary take?
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What's your hottest literary take?
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We need literary fascism.
you need homofascism of the self
don't let women dictate your worth
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btw
Hhehehe
>go on LULZ
>read a post
>kek
>transcribe every word into a new greentext (for the lulz)
>hit return and post it
>nobody is the wiser
4chuds will say this should be illegal.
I think Ernest Hemingway is over rated.
t. Someone who is on bad terms with his local used book store owner because I said I didn't care for Hemingway. Like he refused sale to me that day and hasn't talked to me since kind of bad terms.
I think his short stories are neat but I've yet to read his novels. I've noticed style can change dramatically for an author that way, is that the case with Hemingway or no? Because if it's not then I also agree he is overrated, but definitely worth a read.
I don't think there is much difference actually. If you like the short stories you will probably like his longer stuff. Its not even that I think Hemingway is bad. I compare him to a really talented photographer. He has an eye for things that should be depicted in writing. But to me thats all. I think he doesn't have much as far as his own style, he just kind of lets things speak for themselves. Which is fine but gets boring for me after a while, and is definitely not a good reason to refuse sale to someone trying to buy Stefan Zweigs biography on Balzac.
>Zweig
>Ballsac
both hacks
>homie got filtered from the book store
Dude I’ve given him a shot multiple times. I suffered through one of his books last year and am comfortable concluding that he sucks.
I like him fine, but american writing trying to copy his style for a century has been a disaster.
Eudora Welty is underrated outside of America's South Atlantic. She writes better stories than anything the Brontë sisters did.
I have the Optimist's Daughter because I was interested in southern literature (Stryon, O'Connor, Faulkner, McCarthy) but I got turned off because the prose seemed extremely plain, is she similar to those other authors?
It's good and important to read books that are objectively bad.
discord is a homosexualed tranny hive btw and every moment you spend there you get even gayer than previously before.
Death of the reader makes more sense than death of the author.
Nobody knows what readers think of a book till after they become critics/essayists. It makes no sense lol
I have a few:
Ray Bradbury is overrated. His flowery prose is used to disguise his lack of narrative and poor characters and generally bad writing. The extreme example of this is Dandelion Wine. The closest he gets to actually being great is October Country.
Agreed
Dandelion Wine was straight up insufferable. I think I got to the second chapter where he was repeating the title of the book over and over like it was some big deal and it only served to annoy me and piss me off. It was so frustrating coming from F451 which I enjoyed.
My hot take: Fitzgerald's prose style is unfairly overlooked. He has great imagery and control of language without waxing too ornate or too tight. He's just right.
I was excited to read sound and the fury. Turns out, I can't get into any novel about the American rural life. Steinbeck, Faulkner, and all those redneck-esque settings do nothing for me. I don't know why I'm biased against it. I never once lived in a city, myself.
I mean obviously. Deleuze has practical lessons around class struggle.
You shouldn't allowed to have a controversial literary opinion if you can't back it up with direct quotations from the texts being considers. Also, you should have to earn a literary license before you're allowed to read classic texts.
Almlost every American will not pass this test.
I agree with you on every point
Give me some examples of what you would have on a literary license.
Gender: They/ Them
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/Plato
Literature is for entertainment. People who think it's for "art" are pseudointellectuals.
This book deserves to be burned.
Not because of any harmful political ideals but merely because it is garbage.
>lame attempt to be le witty
>describes atrocity matter of factly
>so it goes
ad nauseam. this book was absolute dogshit
History is fiction
Fiction is focused on singular human characters.
Most historiography is focused on collective institutional characters.
The genre conventions are so radically different that your claim makes no sense. History is however "fictive."
the top 4 fiction writers of all time are proust, borges, cormac mccarthy, and tolstoy
death of ivan ilyich is tolstoy's best work
proust's rat/brothel story makes me like him more
bukowski is the pinnacle of poetry
the context in which you read a book is infinitely more important than the book itself. so much so that there should be some LULZ chart on WHEN to read certain books. for example if you're a new dad, in your first year of parenting, The Road by McCarthy will be the greatest reading experience of your life. If you're a wageslave with the usual sunday night existential crisis then Bukowski's poetry will be great for you. If you just went to a funeral and saw a lot of family members you haven't seen in a long time, In Search of Lost Time will hit you like a fucking nuke and so on.
ryan holiday is a fraud and a gigantic fucking homosexual and if you read his books you're one too
I'm tempted to agree on the last one, having read the same book in different contexts really highlights different aspects of it, so it's natural to connect emotionally during certain moments.
However, I must reject the order that you must select your readings according to their resemblance to your circumstances. I think an honest reader must approach a text in good faith, suspending his own affects in order to truly engage in contact with something external to him, which I believe is the pleasure of literature
Literature was once an important art form but is now unnecessary since we have TV and movies. People’s revealed preferences show that this is just about everyone’s opinion, but we still pretend like literature should matter because it’s old.
OP said hot takes not retard takes.
>What's your hottest literary take?
George Orwell is the most accurate describer of men's libidinal interiority, and he achieves this twice in Aspidistra and Clergyman's Daughter. Men really are that shallow, self-defeating, limp cocked, and prematurely dribbling.
That I do not need to provide a citation and that 'i made it all up' is an entirely valid position.
Eisegesis can be valid, but it is an argument from poetic first principles. Which means you need to take a lot of acid / mushrooms and account for the duality of man, the jungian thing.
The normal format for this kind of argument is the western novel btw.
Hell is a Catholic invention.
I probably have a few.
>I genuinely enjoy reading Evola's work. It's great but I don't know why anyone would proselytize about it.
>Mary Shelley and even Ayn Rand are better writers than Margaret Atwood and Jane Austin.. Both of whom are genuinely terrible fanfic writers that give women a bad name more than anything else.
>Ayn Rand's ideas are dogshit, but almost everyone who shits on her lives her philosophy.
>Ezra Pound really was one of the best American poets of the 20th century and the only reason anyone doesn't like him is because of an ideology they don't even know anything about. In fact, more than half of those people usually only seem to manage to spell it correctly by accident.
>It's not a bad thing to build a family library.
>Ezra Pound really was one of the best American poets of the 20th century
He was the first arthoe.
That doesn't detract from what I said.
Yes it does. Arthoes cannot be artists. They are damned to a life of being art-adjacent. Pound is very sad character in literary history. His writings about poetry are so wonderfully engaging and passionate, but the Cantos are just embarrassing.
The LULZ canon is overrated and boring.
All shit posting is ironic.